If a brand new credit based safelist opened today and said they’ll give you 100,000 for joining, is that a great deal?

As an owner of a very popular and highly ranked credit based safelist (EliteSafelist), I have a vested interest in making sure you see better results from your advertising.

Even if it’s not my own website, the results people get from credit based safelists reflect on the safelist world as a whole.

It’s common to see safelists offer credits for joining their program. But occassionally some safelists go overboard, giving away tens of thousands of even hundreds of thousands of credits for joining.

So back to the original question…

If a brand new credit based safelist opened today and said they’ll give you 100,000 for joining, is that a great deal?

It sounds like a great offer on the surface… but remember that the part of what makes a credit based safelist effective is having members actually clicking credit links and viewing ads.

When a new credit based safelist gives away that many credits, in most cases you can mail a few times a week for MONTHS without running out of credits.

And if you don’t have to click for credits, neither does anyone else!

No one viewing your ads = No Signups = NO SALES OR MONEY!

So do you REALLY want that 100,000 safelist credits? In most cases probably not.

One of the signs of a responsible credit based safelist owner is proper credit management. Don’t settle for anything less, because without real activity, you will simply end up wasting your time for little to no results.

One of the reasons EliteSafelist is consistently ranked one of the best safelists online is due to diligent credit management.

Although it goes against our instincts, I’d advise running away as fast as you can if you see a new safelist offering you insane credit bonuses just for joining.

If you’re looking for a top rated credit based safelist to join, feel free to check out EliteSafelist and join the thousands of other members who are already enjoying fantastic, profit-boosting advertising.

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]]>http://www.solomonhuey.com/internet-marketing/do-you-really-want-those-safelist-credits/feed/8Quality Safelist Reviewhttp://www.solomonhuey.com/internet-marketing/quality-safelist-review/
http://www.solomonhuey.com/internet-marketing/quality-safelist-review/#commentsThu, 15 Jul 2010 14:32:31 +0000http://www.solomonhuey.com/?p=388As a safelist owner, I’m very critical when looking at other similar sites, because if I’m going to recommend one, I want to be confident it will get you results and help you make more money.

My own site, EliteSafelist, is considered one of the best in many circles, ranked highly by multiple sites such as Affiliate Funnel, Safelist Rankings, and Traffic Hoopla. So it’s fair to say I understand what works and what doesn’t.

But I was also concerned because I’ve seen so many safelists inevitably fail because I knew they wouldn’t be able to sustain activity.

I examined Quality Safelist and even grilled Mike with a few questions. I wanted to make sure his site lives up to the name, and this is what I found:

* Quality Safelist has all the best features you want that increase profits, like credit based mailings, banner ads, text ads, downline builder, and more

* I analyzed the membership levels to ensure it’s set up for long term results – and it’s set up well, which increases your chance of making more money

* Mike already owns other successful sites. He already knows how add members, which means you can consistently count on new people to advertise to!

* advertising sites are known to have amazing, amazing results in big launches with the rush of new people joining – expect that to happen here so I recommend you take advantage and profit from the excitement

* I also get to give you an additional 10,000 credits! This offer is limited though, so it may be expired by the time you read this. So hurry just in case! (just use the promo code D9ADDDF5B9 in the member’s area)

They call it a list builder, but I’m going to call it a safelist because … well I can!

In case you don’t know about safelists, List Building Maximizer is an email based advertising website. Members join and can send each other emails using credits. You can be confident your ads will be seen because members need to view emails in order to earn credits and send their own advertisements.

List Building Maximizer has many of the traditional features of most credit based safelists, but let me share with you why I think you’re in good hands here:

* Has all the popular features that you would expect from other top credit based safelists like banner ads, text ads, downline builder, solo ads, and more.

* The amount of credits they give out are about right. This is super important because managing credits properly can have a huge effect on the results you get from your advertising.

* They allow top sponsor ads (tiny ads shown at the top of each safelist email) for upgraded members. This makes your upgrade a better value and gives you autopilot advertising. My ad has already been shown ____ times after about a day

* A HUGE referral contest to celebrate their launch … with $1,500 in prize money up for grabs! Why is this important? Well obviously you could win a lot of cash, but also it could mean a huge rush of new people for you to advertise to.

Just wanna send out a quick shout out to you for adding some very helpful comments on my last blog post. It means a lot and seeing activity like that will SURELY keep me active and sharing info with you!

Woo hoo, so EliteSafelist hit 5,000 active members. I’m really proud of that since the site is still pretty young and it’s already larger than many of the older, established safelists out there. If you haven’t joined yet, shame on you! But it’s ok, you can still join now by clicking here

Viral Ad Store just launched. Although the name is kinda funky, it makes sense once you know what’s unique about it. It’s a viral list builder from Mike Purvis and Greg Hickman, the same guys behind The List Auction, which is (in my opinion) one of the best list builders out there. So far, Viral Ad Store is already getting me incredible results … I don’t have the exact numbers handy but at the time I wrote this, I’ve gotten something like 50 signups to my various lists since it launched. Obviously these guys know what they’re doing. Join here, I highly recommend it.

Resale Rights Hosting launched as well, and I’ve got to say this is an awesome idea. Have you ever tried setting up a resell rights product to sell? Well it’s a PAIN! Resale Rights Hosting has taken care of all of that stuff for you. You could literally be selling resale rights products in minutes. They’ll even give you a 30 day free trial just to check things out. If you’ve been wanting to sell stuff like ebooks, videos, and software but have been intimidated by the technical side of things, then you have to check this out.

So I got today’s article topic from one of your fellow blog readers, and hey I thought it was a good suggestion! Thanks Richard! I’m actually going to split it into two posts, because I think each deserves it’s own so you get the most out of it.If you want to recommend a topic, you can use that blue box on the left (skribit) to request for particular things for me to write about.

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Blogging has been a recent phenomenon that’s taken the internet by storm.

Some people do blogging for fun or to make some extra cash. Some people even make their entire living just from blogging!

I want to make a disclaimer that I’m not some blogging “guru”, but I am always reading and studying internet marketing. Naturally, stuff like blogging comes up fairly often, so I’ve read quite a bit of stuff on blogging and marketing online.

With that said, there are a ton of ways to get traffic to your blog. There’s SEO (search engine optimization), blogging communities (technorati, mybloglog, etc), social networking, blog commenting, blog directories, and tons of other stuff.

They all work! For me personally, I’m all about getting the MOST results for as little effort as possible.

This is how *I* drive traffic to my blog with one simple method…

BUILD YOUR LIST!

That’s it! In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say this would be my answer for most struggling internet marketers.

First let me reveal how I do it, and then why.

1) I create a squeeze page where people can opt in to my mailing list. I’ll usually offer something of value to them, like a free ebook or membership.

2) Then I send traffic to that squeeze page using traffic exchanges, credit based safelists, and viral list builders. I also kind of (as in almost never) do other stuff like social networking or blog commenting, but only if I’m really…really…. really bored, haha. If you’re in a niche outside of Internet marketing, find hotspots where people from your niche would go like forums, popular blogs, and social networking groups.

3) I also naturally get search engine traffic without even doing fancy SEO stuff. If my blog is about internet marketing, I’ll tend to always use keywords about internet marketing anyway, so either way I still get traffic from search engines without any extra effort. But of course if you do your keyword research too, you can enjoy even more free traffic.

4) Then when I make a new blog post, I tell my mailing list subscribers about it.

It’s also a good way to remind people that your blog even exists. Lets face it, we’ve all got busy lives and sometimes things will slip our minds. You don’t want people to forget about your blog, so it’s always nice to send them a little friendly reminder and let them know when you put up a new post.

Promoting your blog to your list is a GREAT way to build a relationship with your readers. Sometimes people want to know that you’re more than a marketer, they want to know what kind of person you are. Sending them to your latest blog post with actual info is a nice change of pace from just emailing them whenever you want to sell them something.

Using a list also makes your blog “Google Slap Proof”. Huh? Basically every now and then Google changes their search engine algorithm (basically a math formula). I’ve read SO many times about people who have spent months or years optimizing their websites/blogs to get on the first page of Google. Countless hours of hard work … and then *SLAP*, Google changes the formula and you’re now listed on like page 10…

Well guess what, if you have a mailing list, it doesn’t really matter where your blog ranks in the search engine! You just send out an email like you’ve always done.

And the best thing about this method is that it doesn’t actually take me any extra work. If you do have the time, then sure go out there and do that extra stuff I listed for more traffic to your blog. If time isn’t quite a luxury you have yet, then you might want to give my method a try.

I know I covered a lot of stuff today and jumped around a bit, so if you have a question, just leave a comment and I’ll try to get ya an answer.

This is actually a two part series. Next time I’ll tell you something else about blogging and how it can make you extra cash.

In the mean time, here’s my recommended action steps for more blog traffic:

1) Build a squeeze page to get people to join your mailing list. You can make them for free at Instant Squeeze Page Generator if you’re not sure how to do it.

SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO in a nutshell, is a method used to get natural traffic from search engines like Google and Yahoo. What makes SEO such a hot topic in Internet Marketing is that it’s free, targeted, and can obviously make a lot of money.

I’ll be the first to say I’m not a big fan of SEO.

From my experience, it’s a bit too much work and too complicated for my taste.

That’s part of the reason that I got into free traffic websites like traffic exchanges, safelists, and list builders.

The truth is that SEO works and it’s a great way to get website traffic … if you know how to do it.

It’s free, it happens on autopilot, and it can mean a ton of traffic and sales if you know what you’re doing.

What has really opened the doors for SEO dummies like me is web 2.0. It’s one of the few ways that you can truly start capitalizing on SEO without having do as much of the grunt work, like writing articles or link building.

Web 2.0 sites like social bookmarking, networking, and blogging have really opened the doors to fast and effective SEO.

Even my first blog, TEscoop gets constant search engine traffic without any effort on my part.

Free traffic websites will always be my primary way of building my list, but SEO is something that you might want to check out too.

Solo says to try this:

1) Get this free report by John Merrick, Social Bookmarking Exposed. It is by FAR, the easiest report I’ve ever read that explains Search Engine Optimization so that anyone can understand it. It’s only 18 pages too.

2) Apply some of the secrets you discover and see how SEO works out for you.

3) Leave a comment and let me know what you think of this post!

]]>http://www.solomonhuey.com/internet-marketing/search-engine-optimization-for-dummies/feed/93 tips for using free credit based safelistshttp://www.solomonhuey.com/website-traffic-generation/3-tips-credit-based-safelists/
http://www.solomonhuey.com/website-traffic-generation/3-tips-credit-based-safelists/#commentsThu, 09 Apr 2009 05:37:50 +0000http://www.solomonhuey.com/?p=202Free traffic websites like credit based safelists are powerful ways to advertise, especially if you aren’t good at getting website traffic.

I don’t really like doing stuff like writing articles, SEO, link building, social bookmarking, adwords, and all those other “traditional” traffic methods. Don’t get me wrong, they work, but those methods aren’t quite for me.

I got my start thanks to free traffic websites and I’ve discovered secrets from some of the best in the business.

In case you don’t know what a credit based safelist is, it is basically a membership website where you exchange emails with other members. When you sign up, you get to email other members. And in exchange, they get to email you. Members have an incentive to read your emails because they earn credits for viewing your website.

Today I’m going to share with you my stupidly simple formula for successful advertising at credit based safelists.

What do I mean by successful? I mean anywhere from 5-20 signups or opt-ins every time I send out my mailings.

So here’s the basics of it…

First, you need to build your mailing list. They either need to be signing up at your websites or on a professional autoresponder like Aweber. This is the key, because once someone is on your mailing list, you can email then whenever you want. Is there a new program you want to tell them about tomorrow? 3 months from now? If they are still on your list, you can tell them about it!

It’s like having cash on demand.

Second, you need to track your advertising. You need to know where you are getting your sign ups from. It’s not enough to just mail randomly to every safelist. I know exactly where I get my sign ups from, so I don’t waste my time at programs that don’t produce results.

For example, there are a couple of safelists where I could spend over an hour clicking for credits, but it only gets me about 1 sign up per mailing. In that time, I could click for credits at several programs that get me much better results.

But wait, couldn’t you just join the programs with the most members? Membership numbers don’t always equal results. The most important thing you want to know about is activity, and tracking your advertising helps you gauge that information.

And since you’re here, I’ll give you some real insider info. There’s a few programs that outright LIE by inflating their membership numbers. I won’t call them out by name, but sadly they are out there.

What you want is a short page, that quickly explains or gets the interest of the member. Think of it like a billboard. It doesn’t have to have fancy graphics like I showed you above. I’ve seen some squeeze pages that look “unprofessional” but pull in tons of opt-ins.

If you just follow these 3 tips, you’ll find your results at credit based safelists explode. Let’s get an action plan set up for you:

Step 1) Sign up for an autoresponder so you can build your list. One of the best in the business is Aweber:
=> Click Here to Join Aweber

Step 2) Track your advertising using Hitsconnect. You should ugrade to the highest level so you can track where your sign ups are coming from:
=> Click Here to Join Hitsconnect

Step 3) Create some splash or squeeze pages. There’s a few services you can use. Most of them are free to join, don’t require much or any knowledge of HTML, and have a bunch of other features I won’t mention here.

Instant Squeeze Page Generator is just like it sounds, it helps you create squeeze pages fast just by filling in some forms. They even host products that your opt-ins can download when they sign up for your mailing list:
=> Click Here to Join Instant Squeeze Page Generator

TE Tool Box is a service created for traffic exchanges, but you can use it for safelists too. They have a nice little editor inside so you can create splash and squeeze pages without knowing any HTML.
=> Click Here to Join TE Tool Box

Step 4) If you aren’t on my mailing list yet, sign up now and you’ll get my free guide to successful advertising at traffic exchanges and credit based safelists. Just go to my blog and you’ll find an opt-in box in the upper right hand corner.